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This afternoon, I was uploading old pictures from January to start rounding out my Flickr collection (which I want to represent all the pictures I’ve ever taken.) This one caught my eye; it was from a rainy January 26, 2005.

I saw the cover of the July 27, 2005 issue of the East Bay Express this morning. Phillip Johnson, known widely as the the father of the “intelligent design movement”, is featured in the issue. I actually know Phil as a fellow elder at my own congregation, someone I see every Sunday morning.

What I actually think about ID is a topic for an essay some other day!

It’s rather gratifying to see how much Laura and I were glowing in March, just after buying an engagement ring! We’re still super-happy today, 2-1/2 months after the wedding! (Thanks to Holly, my mother-in-law for this great picture.)

About a week ago, I listened to the amazingly funny clip from Jon Stewart about Karl Rove and Valerie Plame. I don’t know whether the clip is factually accurate — but it sure made me laugh. I’m tempted to think now that in political discourse, it may be as important to be funny and entertaining as it is to be logically exacting and scrupulously fair. Oh to be funny and fair!

I saw this display all over the Powell Street BART station. It’s hardly news that Dove would use scantily clad women to advertise its products. What I find more surprising is that these women are held to be exemplars of “real women” (as opposed to supermodels). OK, they aren’t skin-on-bones type supermodels, but I would hardly think of these bodies as those of the typical consumer of Dove producs.

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Freakonomics is an extremly popular book at the moment. Has any of my readers read it yet? I have a hold on the book at the Berkeley Public Library, but there are 82 people ahead of me when I put the hold!

As we were walking by the corner of Addison Street and Berkeley Square this morning, Laura and I spotted a sign for a new Half Price Books going up. How exciting — another bookstore on a street that is becoming quite literary, as Laura noted.